CEN10WA546 · Bell 206 B
Bell 206 B · Accident
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN10WA546
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- API-reported fatalities
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Unknown
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Bell 206 B
- Aircraft type
- Bell 206
- Category
- Helicopter
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- HR-AVL
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Unknown
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Not recorded
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of San Pedro Sula, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
On September 18, 2010, at 1757 coordinated universal time, a Bell 206B, HR-AVL, was substantially damaged upon impact with terrain near the La Mesa Airport, San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The pilot, the sole occupant on board, was fatally injured. The number of injuries to persons on the ground have not been confirmed. Weather in the area was predominantly visual meteorological conditions.
According to initial statements received by the investigator-in-charge, the helicopter was performing several low passes for a local air show. During a low pass the helicopter collided with terrain and was substantially damaged.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Government of Honduras. This report is for information purposes only and contains only information released by the Government of Honduras. Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
Director General de Aeronáutica Civil Apartado Postal 30145 Tegucigalpa,Honduras C.A
dgachn@mail.org
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN10WA546
- Event ID
- 20100918X12923
- Case number
- CEN10WA546
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 7662e4d746f0a60a481fd8558c52677bcf957169d3312efc8dc003a1012d0e94; retrieved 2026-09-13T21:03:18.298Z.